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Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies

Posted by timothy on from the just-give-us-the-money-and-nobody-gets-hurt dept.

Mike writes "If you buy a Kindle and some Kindle ebooks from Amazon, be careful of returning items. Amazon decided that one person had returned too many things, so they suspended his Amazon account, which meant that he could no longer buy any Kindle books, and any Kindle subscriptions he's paid for stop working. After some phone calls, Amazon granted him a one-time exception and reactivated his account again." Take this with as much salt as you'd like.

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  1. Re:A right to do what? by ATestR · · Score: 0, Troll

    False analogy. Consider this to be more like buying a Costco membership, and frequently returning merchandise, and having your membership canceled.

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  2. Wow now if amazon... by aceofspades1217 · · Score: 0, Troll

    owned compusa I would be screwed. I have returned and exchanged a ton of the stuff I buy there and they never even charge restocking fees.

    Good thing they can't suspend people that easily xD

  3. The Kindle works without Amazon. by GigG · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let's see the guy orders e-books and keeps them long enough to strip the protection off of them and then requests a refund. I think I would have canceled the account too. Add to this the fact that every e-book I've seen on Amazon allows a free trial. Where you get some amount of the book.

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  4. Sony PRS 505 by jgtg32a · · Score: 1, Troll

    And this crap is one of the reasons why I bought the 505 over the Kindle, the other being PDF support.

    To add a book to my 505 I plug in the 505 open it up like a USB drive, and click and drag.

    That is all, I have no idea what the Sony software looks like.

    1. Re:Sony PRS 505 by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 0, Troll

      Metamatic is wrong, only the Kindle 1 allowed you to copy "free" books over usb. With the Kindle 2 you must download them over the network using the built in browser. The one they disabled when they killed that guy's account.

  5. Re:Dont be a dumbass by aristotle-dude · · Score: 0, Troll

    No asswipe, you are not supposed to break things or just use them and then return them when they are either broken or the novelty has worn off. I would have to guess that you are neither retarded or clueless but just an amoral ass.

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